Coaching is a hard enough thing to evaluate for even the most educated and hard core fan. Even for the NHL team which we watch on a daily basis, it's hard to really tell (other than in some very obvious situations) the impact coaching is having because it's a second order impact. All we can really do is point to preparedness, effort, line matching and infer thoughts on how well the coach is doing.
Apply that to a minor league coach that the bulk of us never watch on a regular basis, and layer on the fact that role of a minor league coach isn't just to win games, but develop prospects for the big club (even tougher to evaluate from the stands) and it becomes nearly impossible to tell if they are doing a good job or not.
Point being, 90% of us on this board have no ability to make even an educated guess on whether this is good, bad or neutral. When that's the case, the default response tends to be one of fear of loss, worried that things might get worse vs. better with change. Kind of simple human nature.
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